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According to the USAT account, some of the Iraq scenario is quite familiar: A dire threat to Saddam (this time issued by Secretary of Defense Cohen), President Clinton conferring with national security staff and several foreign leaders, and talk of Tomahawk cruise missiles as the likely weapon.
Is there any way around Arrow's dire conclusion?
For example, in three categories (sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect), the number of cases described as "moderate" declined even as the number of "serious" ones increased--strongly suggesting that cases once viewed as only moderately threatening have now been "upgraded" to the most dire category.
Call Chatterbox paranoid--you won't be the first!--but could it be that pro-preference university officials want to discredit Prop. 209 by painting its consequences as more dire than they actually are? ...
The militancy of the Sikhs came about only as Nanak’s successors got embroiled in politics — with dire results for the Sikhs — when their leaders challenged the Mughals.